Manners Quotes

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Bad manners make a journalist.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

The early worm deserves the bird.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

What once were vices are manners now.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.